Open Door Policy: #MFRWAuthor Blog Challenge, Week 34

This week’s Blog Challenge Topic is “Open Doors or Closed Doors”. Let’s have some fun!

Not my front door, darn it!

My Open Door Policy

If you are welcomed across the threshold at my house, you’ll find an open floor plan and mostly open doors. Even our bedroom and office doors are generally open, unless we’re trying to keep the cat out of the room or otherwise need privacy.

Of course, there’s that one room that’s the exception to mostly open doors.

Closed Door Policy

The bathroom, duh.

I once read a “ten ways to keep your marriage strong” (or something similar) blog by a man who had just gotten divorced. One of the items on his list was “close the bathroom door when you poop”.

To each his own, but closing the bathroom door seems like a no-brainer to me!

Unless, perhaps, your bathroom looks like this:

Winter Palace Bathroom

Or this:

One of Napoleon’s Bathrooms

Keep these Almost Always Closed

Emergency Exit Doors

The Cockpit Door

And this one, always, unless we’re on terra firma:

What’s your policy? Open doors or closed?

This is a blog hop, so hop along with my fellow MFRW Authors and see what they have to say on this topic.

Apparently Americans are prudish with the bathrooms, ( closed doors). Count me as a full-blooded American! Seriously, do we have to be told to close the door? I was uncomfortable in college when I had to use the shared community style bathrooms. I had a coworker once, leave the door wide open on her stall so she could talk to me while she did her thing. I was like – GAH! NO!
I agree with Sherry, both spouses should take that advice.
Another bit of advice – post a toxic gas sign post usage!

Anyway, what I can remember: My office doesn’t have doors, so there’s nothing to close. It sits in the middle of the house since it’s my dining room turned office. My bedroom door I keep closed. It’s the only place I really get any privacy and alone quiet time away from the kids. There are times I leave it open and all 3 boys will end up in there watching TV and hanging out with the pets that also will follow me in if the door is left open. Because they had a habit of just walking in, one year for Mother’s Day my gift was a new knob that locked.

If more than one person lives in the house, yes, close that bathroom door. I mostly sleep with my bedroom door halfway open ninety percent of the time. Creative choices for the door images and captions to go with them, Alina.

LOL….if I’m in an airplane, that door had better be FIRMLY closed and LOCKED! As for those emergency doors….when I was in a coed dorm, we LIKED it when the doors were open…..meaning I could spend HOURS saying goodnight to my man, or even having a quickie in the empty room on either side of it….;) Yes, we knew when the RAs made their rounds, lmao!

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